Sound Solutions for Football Stadiums  

MAST recently had the pleasure of supplying Phantom Communications with TOA audio solutions for their first large-scale installation at Bangor Football Club. 
TOA caught up with Jonathan Jones, Managing Director at Phantom Communications, to find out more about the project requirements, the challenges faced, and how the final system met the club’s needs….

Delivering Clear, Robust Audio in an Outdoor Stadium
Weather is always a factor and ensuring the sound delivers to all the areas required and can cope with match day crowd volume, is too.
Bangor Football Club also had their own requirements of what they wanted the system to do. The brief was to create a multifunctional solution that was able to play music and give live announcements – enhancing the pre-match atmosphere was key to the brief. They also required the installation to deliver clear messages and announcements via a wireless microphone whilst also playing background music.

The system needed to be robust for all weather use as its main purpose was to provide external audio within the stadium to deliver pitch side interviews and music for the spectators.

As Jonathan explains:

“There was an original system in place but as it was 12 years old it was decided that a complete replacement was the best option although we did manage to re-purpose some of the exiting cabling, we did install three new lines and replaced all the hardware and the audio cabinet speakers. Knowing the reputation for durability and longevity of TOA products we contacted them for technical support and to provide us with some product solutions.”

“Mounting the speakers was the most challenging due to placement, height and location but overall, with the TOA team’s guidance, the installation went smoothly.
I have to also give a special mention to Daniel Attwood, our MAST Account Manager who went above and beyond to make sure we got the right equipment, and got in on time due to our tight deadlines, fantastic service by him as always. The Mast Digital team proved once again why they are one of the best distributors out there for customer service and tech support. 

The Club are very happy with their new system. As we currently look after the Stadiums data and security systems, we will be adding audio to our maintenance schedule giving them a great sound system for many years to come.”

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